Show HN: I cloned a YC funded app in a day as an MVP

  • I very much like this. What you have effectively demonstrated is that startups based purely on LLM prompts have no technical moat. But they are also a lot of successful software companies where their core product is not too difficult to clone. With myspace around, the founding idea for Facebook also wasn’t exactly new.

    That means what you have really proven here is that distribution and polishing are the crucial ingredients for a successful startup.

  • Very cool. Meta thought is to monitor the YC portfolio for what is and isn't getting traction and enable rapidly vibe coding clones, brute forcing towards success (there was an EU accelerator/umbrella group that did something similar pre Gen AI, but the name escapes me). "Platform of generators" sort of thing. Regardless, well done!

    (foundational models->foundational agents->platform for orchestration)

  • I thought the project was going to be related to this other company backed by YC:

    https://miyagilabs.ai/

  • Why is this a thing? Google NotebookLM does precisely this for free. its like we are in the car phone era, with cell phones just around the corner.